Stream Dream

Since training in Brussels and London, Julie Bougard (Mons, 1972) has worked with the likes of Joanne Leighton, Alain Platel, Thierry Smits and Sasha Waltz, and since 2013 has collaborated with Thomas Lebrun at the CCN de Tours. A pioneering researcher, she has been producing her own creations for more than twenty years, championing dance as “the art of all possibilities”.

Taking the omnipresence of screens in the lives of children and teenagers, Julie Bougard does not make it the subject or reject it, but instead turns it into the vector of a narrative that is both unusual and familiar. It all starts by conjuring up the original pixels in video games on an almost cellular basis. This is followed by stylised characters, their 3D avatars, revealing the trio of Fanny Brouyaux, Daan Jaartsveld and Denis Robert and their interactions and breakaways. From the virtual to the living, the choreographer jostles codes together and, rather than representation, prefers playful suggestion, enriching it all with light and sound. Superpowers, metamorphoses and clumsiness structure Stream Dream by bringing humans face to face with the treasures of the imagination that are deployed to inhabit reality.